{"id":2104,"date":"2010-11-15T05:05:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T13:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2010-11-14T23:50:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T07:50:42","slug":"advent-as-a-time-of-perseverance-for-teachers-and-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/advent-as-a-time-of-perseverance-for-teachers-and-students","title":{"rendered":"Advent as a Time of Perseverance for Teachers and Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2107\" title=\"Winter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/winter-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Winter\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/winter-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/winter.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>As always, the latest issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholictv.com\/catholic-magazine.aspx\">iCatholic magazine<\/a> has some excellent articles. I especially liked Bishop Trautman&#8217;s article on Advent, featuring this gem for Catholic educators:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Advent is the beginning of a new liturgical year, so it is full of joyful expectation&#8230;.Advent tells a student to go back to the books and try again. Advent tells teachers, try once more to reach that student.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By the middle of November, both students and teachers need to hear a message of perseverance&#8211;at least this teacher does. Fortunately, I&#8217;ve been hearing it a lot lately. Yesterday&#8217;s gospel reading ended with these powerful words from Jesus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;You will be hated by all because of my name, but not a hair on your head will be destroyed. By your perseverance you will secure your lives.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the midst of our daily struggles and sufferings, we are called to persevere, keeping hope alive. As the days darken and the cold creeps in, it&#8217;s comforting to know that Advent is just around the corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As always, the latest issue of iCatholic magazine has some excellent articles. I especially liked Bishop Trautman&#8217;s article on Advent, featuring this gem for Catholic educators: &#8220;Advent is the beginning of a new liturgical year, so it is full of joyful expectation&#8230;.Advent tells a student to go back to the books and try again. Advent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/advent-as-a-time-of-perseverance-for-teachers-and-students\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advent as a Time of Perseverance for Teachers and Students&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[87,88],"class_list":["post-2104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality","tag-advent","tag-catholictv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prZ8V-xW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2113,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions\/2113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}